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Russian Leverage on the CIS and the Baltic States
May 15, 2007 09:54

A new report from FOI aims to identify Russia's foreign policy levers, analyse how they have been used and assess how strong they are in the context of the former Soviet Union. This has been done by assessing five clusters of levers, namely political, human-based, energy, economic and military ones. In doing this, a pattern of how Russia uses its levers emerges.

Governance and Social Issues No comments yet
Tags: Russia, soviet, politics, energy, economy, military
Who bears the cost of Russia's military draft?
November 23, 2007 17:13

The authors use data from a large nationally representative survey in Russia to analyze the distributional and welfare implications of draft avoidance as a common response to Russia's highly unpopular conscription system. They develop a simple theoretical model that describes household compliance decisions with respect to enlistment. The authors use several econometric techniques to estimate the effect of various household characteristics on the probability of serving in the army and the implications for household income.

Macroeconomic Policy No comments yet
Tags: Russia, military, welfare, household, income